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Very cool! I was just idly thinking about something very similar these past few days. I don’t have the time or energy to build it, so happy to see someone already came up with the same idea, and with the same values (local first, code platform agnosticism), no less!
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For those looking for more info, the announcement blog post describes a bit more. I don’t see any docs aside from this yet though.
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AGPL ;_; I was so excited to use this for work when I first heard about it but I guess that won’t be happening
This isn’t a knock, I’m just actually a bit sad I can’t try it because it fills a niche for a tool I’ve been desperately needing
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That’s unfortunate. When I bump into strange policies like this at my organization, I like to just get on their nerves about it. Mainly to make them suffer for it a little bit, but sometimes people turn out more reasonable than expected and something improves. It would be interesting to at least find out the reasoning behind the policy.
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How does that in any way prevent using it for work? You’re not copying parts of the code into the patches you review…
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Legal departments everywhere I’ve worked have just banned using anything licensed AGPL even as a binary.
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Even as a tool? I mean, you’re not talking about deploying it, you’re talking about running it on your laptop… I’ve never had a legal department get involved in what I run on my laptop before
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It would be neat if the project also spoke out against GenAI as a whole. Regardless of policy, a notice stating that the project condemns GenAI is always nice. :3
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You are, of course, allowed to use LLMs in a personal context however you see fit. For example, you may use LLMs for exploring the codebase, research, debugging and bouncing around your ideas.
It’s funny they say “of course” — because this statement is enough for the project to go on the open-slopware list as “condones LLM ingestion”.
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I’m not sure if I understand your comment correctly. The “of course” part is there because I think it’s none of my business. Even if I believe using LLMs in any way is bad, I don’t get to tell you what to do. While I think this should be obvious, I still included it for clarity.
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I agree with your position. It’s just funny that you (and me) think that’s not our business, but others would already shame the project for that. ;)
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That’s funny, that “of course” is the only thing I thought I might edit out if I end up using this as a template. I agree that it should be common sense but words like “obvious” “of course” and “common sense” often inflame people.
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Good point, thanks. I’ll edit it out. I have to think about a better way to get this point across. Maybe a footnote that explains that personal use is simply out of scope for the policy…
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I don’t think this statement needs to be there honestly.
It’s already a given whatever we like it or not.
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